Australia will not send back Sirul to face death penalty

FMT Reporters

 | January 15, 2015

AG’s Department says Australia's extradition legislation prohibits a person being surrendered to another country for an offence punishable by death.

KUALA LUMPUR: Australia will refuse a Malaysian government request to extradite to Kuala Lumpur a former Malaysian police commando sentenced to death for the murder of a pregnant Mongolian socialite.

The Sydney Morning Herald quoted a spokesman for the Attorney-General’s Department as saying Australia’s extradition legislation did not allow a person to be surrendered to another country for an offence punishable by death unless the country had given Australia an undertaking that the death penalty would not be carried out.

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